February 7th Meeting

Have you ever had to determine whether one of your agency’s officials can testify against the Government?  Have you had to try to stop any of your employees from becoming “professionals" at "testifying" in cases are not relevant to your agency?  If so, then the IEC is the place to be on February 7th when we hold our next monthly meeting.

Rick Thomas from the Office of Government Ethics will speak on the expert witness rule at 5 C.F.R. 2635.805.  Rick will be providing an updated, and shortened version of his presentation at the last Office of Government Ethics Conference.  His materials from the conference are available on the web.  Terry Henry of the Justice Department will speak about the Touhy rule and how it can be used to prevent your employees from being asked to testify on cases irrelevant to the agency. 

Our February 7th meeting will take place from 12:15-1:30 in the OTS auditorium,

1700 G Street, N.W.

-- the corner of 17th and G Streets.  Individuals who are on the IEC roster need not pre-register for this meeting.  Ethics officials who are not on our roster but who wish to attend our February meeting can pre-register by contacting Patrick Carney not later than Monday, February 4th. Those who are neither on the IEC roster nor pre-registered can still be admitted to our meeting site by showing a Government ID to OTS Security personnel and signing in. 

We look forward to seeing you on February 7.